Short stories
حكاية جنون ابنة عمي هنية
Not translated into English
Hassouna Mosbahi · 1986
Synopsis
A collection of short stories in Arabic, the author's first, published in Tunis by Dār al-riyāḥ al-arbaʿ in a volume of eighty-five pages. The title story tells of a cousin's madness: the writer draws there, as often in his fiction, on figures from his own family.
Context
The book appeared in Tunis; the Bibliothèque nationale de France dates it to 1985, whereas biographical notices give 1986. A new edition, of one hundred and eighteen pages, appeared in 2000 in Bardo. The author published two other collections in 1997, and, from 1995, novels in Arabic, one of which was honoured in Munich in 2000; he also wrote diaries and travel narratives, one of which won him the Ibn Battuta prize. The Arabic title is written with ibnat in most sources and with bint in the catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale.
Who it is for
Short narratives written in Arabic, for those who wish to read Hassouna Mosbahi before his novels and his travel journals.
Prizes and reception
Short story prize of the Tunisian Ministry of Culture in 1986, according to the Areq encyclopaedia and the Kotobli entry.
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